I propose a new, potentially lengthy discussion topic for FRIAM: why, and/or why not plain ascii text email readers are/are not superior to html readers.
Points awarded for verbosity. Points detracted for succinctness. You have been advised. --Doug On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > I upgraded to "less" about 10 years ago, it makes it easier to scroll > through my mail backwards, more or less, though I think these days "more" > is just an alias to "less", more or less. > > Wow. I had forgotten that I was on a mailing list populated by dinosaurs. > Thanks for reminding me. What do you use, Russ. Mutt? Or Pine? Or mail. > Or do you just do "more" on /var/spool/mail? > > :) > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Russell Standish > <r.stand...@unsw.edu.au>wrote: > >> Think of the people who do not read their email in a web browser. I'm >> one of those, and I have my reasons (over and above just being a >> curmudgeon, of course). The procedure here is: >> >> 1. copy the link, >> 2. start a text editor >> 3. paste it into a text editor, >> 4. remove spurious line feeds and continuation characters from the URL >> 5. copy the URL again >> 6. open a web browser >> 7. select "open web location" >> 8. paste the URL >> 9. press return >> >> As Glen says, unless there is a brief summary of what the link is >> about *in the email text*, one just won't follow the link. >> >> Even worse are those emails that say "click here". Supposedly, the >> "here" is rendered as a hyperlink, but one doesn't even have a URL to >> begin with. >> >> :). >> >> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 03:03:42PM -0700, Douglas Roberts wrote: >> > </smartass-mode> >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net >> >wrote: >> > >> > > Well yes, but I'm afraid one, or at most two clicks are required. >> Here's >> > > the procedure: >> > > >> > > 1) Click on the link (I know, you wanted to avoid that, but...) >> > > 2) Squint at just the first sentence or two. If >> > > 2) a. the article looks like something you might be interested in >> reading, >> > > open your eyes more fully and scan to the bottom. Alternatively, if >> > > 2) b. the article looks completely unappealing, click the little "x" >> > > symbol in the browser tab containing the offending verbiage. >> > > 3) Proceed on as you were. >> > > 4) #endif >> > > >> > > >> > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:38 PM, glen e. p. ropella < >> g...@tempusdictum.com>wrote: >> > > >> > >> >> > >> Is there any chance you could post a little blurb to go with these >> links >> > >> so that we don't have to click the link in order to find out whether >> or >> > >> not we want[ed] to click the link? >> > >> >> > >> I've been rick-rolled enough to avoid clicking links with no blurbs. >> 8^) >> > >> >> > >> Douglas Roberts wrote at 02/01/2013 01:35 PM: >> > >> > Two of them, actually. >> > >> > >> > >> > http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/epic-fail.html >> > >> > >> > >> >> http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-natives-are-getting-restless.html >> > >> >> > >> -- >> > >> glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> ============================================================ >> > >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> > >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> > >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > >> >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > *Doug Roberts >> > > d...@parrot-farm.net* >> > > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*< >> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> > > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> > > 505-455-7333 - Office >> > > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > *Doug Roberts >> > d...@parrot-farm.net* >> > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*< >> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> > * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> >> > 505-455-7333 - Office >> > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* >> >> > ============================================================ >> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >> Principal, High Performance Coders >> Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au >> University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > -- > *Doug Roberts > d...@parrot-farm.net* > *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> > * > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-672-8213 - Mobile* > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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